Coal plant will undermine carbon aspirations - Greens

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New Zealand Green MP Jeanette Fitzsimons speaks against converting lignite to diesel fuel.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Plans by state-owned coalminer Solid Energy to build a billion-dollar coal-to-diesel fuel plant at its huge lignite deposits in Southland will make a joke of New Zealand's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Green Party says.

Read the article at Stuff.co.nz